I’ve always wanted to be a librarian. When I was in college, I was choosing between computer science and library science for graduate school. I reasoned that computer scientists (in those days) spent all day talking to computers, while librarians spent half the day talking to a computer and half the day talking to people. I went with librarianship.

What are your five all time top library resources?

Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Like Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with footnotes.

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and in fact all dictionaries of quotations. Like Dorothy Sayers, “I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking.”

Cambridge World History of Food

Britannica Online

Google Scholar/Open Worldcat

Contact Information:

At the Reference desk, or drop by her office: Learning Center 126 (Reference Area, Level C)
Or make an appointment for a consultation
Email: jheise@drew.edu
Phone: x3675